Assistant College

Maricate Conlon

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E DUCATION

B oston College, Chestnut Hill, MA

M .S. Geology Candidate 2 011-2013

G PA: 3.71

M aster Thesis (in progress): “A hindcast comparing the response of the Souhegan River to dam removal with

the simulations of the Dam Removal Express Assessment Model -1”

P roject continues to monitor and quantify the physical response o f the Souhegan River to the r emoval of the

M errimack Village Dam, removed in August 2008, wit h the use of topographic surveying and grain size

a nalysis. In addition the study compares simulations of the Dam Removal Express Assessment Model,

d eveloped by Yantao Cui of Stillwater Sciences, to the annual longitudinal and cross section surveys that

o bserve channel evolution.

L afayette College, Easton, PA

B .S. in Geology and Geoscience 2 007-2011

Minor in Economics and Business

G PA: 3.75

H onors Thesis (completed): “Interdisciplinary Approach and Evaluation of chemistry, sedimentation, & dam

removal of low -head dams on the Bushkill Creek, Easton, PA”

P roject included obtaining several cores of river bed sediment and conducting chemical and grain size

a nalysis of sediment samples. Cores were taken immediately upstream of the low-head dam closest to the

c onfluence of the Bushkill Creek and Delaware River.

A WARDS

B oston College Earth and Environmental Sciences Department Best Graduate 2 013

Student Presentation – awarded to the graduate student with t he best end of the

y ear presentation and highest caliber research

L afa yette College James L. Dyson Award – awarded for a cademic achievement in

2011

the geosciences

L afa yette College Class of 1913 Trophy – awarded to the graduating student - 2 011

athlete who has a ttained the greatest distinction both as an athlete and a scholar

2011

L afa yette College Magna Cum Laude Graduate

T EACHING EXPERIENCE

B oston College

T eaching Assistant – Introductory Seismology and Geophysics Course 2 012

R esponsibilities: developing lab syllabus, teaching lab exercises, writing assignments and practicums,

collaborating o n exam content and administering exam grades.

B oston College 2 012

Teaching Assistant – Geoscience and Public Policy

R esponsibilities: guest lecturing, developing assignments and exams, and administering grades.

L afayette College 2 010-2011

T eaching Assistant – Earth Hazards and Disasters

R esponsibilities: assisting in lab instruction and course grading

Maricate Conlon

R ELATED EXPERIENCE

L afayette College

R esearcher - Independent research in several geoscience fields 2 007-2011

G eomorphology : Developed chemical and geomorphological implications of a

p otential low -head dam removal project on the Bushkill Creek.

M ineralogy : Evaluated mineral X - Ray patterns for feldspar and apatite minerals and

analyzed patterns of thermally induced volumetric expansion of the mineral structure.

B iogeoc hemistry : Conducted laboratory research to isolate and use bacterial agents to

reduce perchlorate contamination.

J ames Madison University 2009

F ield Course Participant – Clonbur, Ireland

L earned g eologic field methods such as the use of a Brunton c ompass, operation of

portable GIS tablets, and river discharge measurement techniques. G roups of students

worked together to develop s tructural and glacial maps of Ireland geology. The

c ourse stressed the importance of g eologic interpretation and technical reporting.

P UBLICATIONS AND PAP ERS

P rinciples of Thermal Expansion in the Feldspar System ( 2010), A merican Mineralogist, Vol. 95.

O n-site Monitoring Related to the Merrimack Village Dam Removal Project Final Technical Report ( 2012)

S ubmitted to G omez and Sullivan Engineers, Pennichuck Water Works Co., and NOAA Restoration Center.

L AB/TECHNICAL SKILLS

A dobe Acrobat Pro, Adob e Illustrator

A rcMap10, ArcCatalog10, ArcToolbox10, 3D and Spatial Analyst Tools, Standard Query Language

A tomic Absorption Spectroscopy

G eomorphology Interpretation

H ydrogeology Field Techniques

I GOR Mineral X-Ray Analysis Software

L eica Total Station Surveying equipment and Leica Combined Software Suite

M ATLAB

M icrosoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint

S ediment Coring and Sediment Core Analysis

S ediment Grain Size Distribution Sieve Analysis

S ediment Pulse Modeling (Dam Removal Express Assessment Modeling)

S tructural field mapping, use of Brunton Compass

M EMBERSHIPS

S igma Xi Research Society

G eological Society of America

S tudent Member of the American Association of Professional Geologists

R ELEVANT COURSE WORK

G raduate: Applications of Geographic Information Systems, Advanced Geophysics, Fluid Flow and

Sediment Transport, Quantitative Geomorphology, Multi -variable Calculus, Mathematical Statistics,

Ecohydrology, Remote Sensing

U ndergraduate: Hydrogeology, Aqueous Geochemistry, Earth Surface Processes, Paleoclimatology and

Oceanography, GIS in the Geosciences, Sedimentology and Stratigraphy, S tructural Geology, Mineralogy,

Optical Petrology, Chemistry, Single Variable Calculus I and II, Physics

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